Formerly "RangeBiome's Headlines", RangeTree County is the cyberspace equivalent of a "clipping service" providing a  periodic sample of news believed to be of interest to RangeBiome's audience.

March 19, 2005

• Ranchers watch and wait as wolf migration returns

• Scientists dig deep, find silt is culprit (Editorial Note: Digging deeper, it appears that silt is the symptom while cattle and sheep grazing may be the culprits in the decline of Australia's Great Barrier Reef!)

• Forest Service Releases Administrative Direction for New Planning Rule

• Ranchers can sign up for drought aid (SD)

  • USDA declares Humboldt state of emergency

  • U.S. Drought Monitor (current map)

  • U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook (current map)

  • Drought in the Interior West (multi-year chart)

• Governor raps Great Divide plan

  • Freudenthal asks BLM to clarify drilling agenda

• America's liquidation sales of wildlife habitat should worry all conservationists

• Few elk in Red Rim this year

• County deals with butterfly issue

• Brucellosis cattle infected wildlife

• Myers Vote Sets Up Senate Battle Over Bush Judicial Nominees

• U.S. officials mull legal options as deadline passes in Montana cattle case

  • Canadian, New York men charged in cattle smuggling

  • Swift action on vCJD needed

  • Bush uses rule book to roll back protections: Easing hand of government -- or a payoff to corporations?

  • Researcher plans discussion on 'mad cow' disease at ISU

  • US Rancher Group Seeks Aug. Trial on Canada Cattle

    • Montana Judge Sets July Hearing on Canada Cattle

    • Ag. Dept. Appeals Ruling on Canada Cattle

    • USDA seeks to overturn cattle trade injunction

  • Farming and your Freedom - It's a good thing we don't shoot at Canadians!

  • Debate over testing 100% of cattle heats up (Editorial note: While USDA did not "get it", maybe the Canadians do. Any country that can provide and export fully tested beef in large quantity is going to create their own "sellers' market", and reap the benefits of premium pricing well in excess of the costs of testing!)

  • Animal epidemic spreads to Badakhshan. "... Nearly 65% of the animal livestock in north-eastern Badakshan province have died after contracting a form of mad-cow disease..."

• Horse Evolution Followed Twisty Trail, Study Says

• Mass slaughter on barren Kasos